Template:In the news/sandbox
- Xi Jinping (pictured) becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
- Hamas military chief Ahmed Jaabari is killed in an Israeli military operation.
- A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.
- Justin Welby is announced as the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury.
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"In the news" mentions and links to entries of timely interest – encyclopedia articles that have been updated to reflect an important current event – rather than conventional news items. To prevent vandalism on the Main Page, it is a permanently protected template. See Wikipedia:In the news for more details.
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The template accepts one parameter: adding |nocurrenteventslink=1
removes the link to Portal:Current events. This is used on the current events page to hide the link there.
Admins: After updating please purge the cache of the Main Page so that the updated version appears.
In terms of Main Page balance, right now we're configured for widescreen monitors, which it appears most editors use. Non-widescreen users, please do not change the balance even if it looks off on your monitor.
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